While I was all pissed off last weekend about tires, I completely forgot to mention my distant encounter with a shark.
I was hiking along the beach north of Bolinas, heading south, when I saw something breach about a half mile to a mile out, hard to say on the distance. At first I thought, cool... whale! then it jumped again, and with a full view it looked a bit sleek and small for a whale. The third jump, same impression. After that nothing, no spouts, no more surface activity for at least 20 minutes.
Could have been a whale, but as the backdrop to the jump was the Farallones, I'd venture to say just as likely a shark. That and the lack of spouting makes me think that's my first GWS encounter.
Talked to a guy later on who said he's been out boating in the area the week before and saw a 12 footer cruise beneath him. I'd love to see one of those guys up close from a boat.
